Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Rou reconciled with Uchiha Itachi after he returned to walk her home, while Uchiha Kō agreed to attend Fourth Raikage A’s succession ceremony after demanding detailed information. The Kumogakure envoy returned with the requested details, unaware that Konoha had monitored his call and notes.

• Uchiha Itachi returned to the academy after taking Sasuke home and walked Uchiha Rou back, where she comforted him with a wet wipe.
• Uchiha Itachi assured Uchiha Rou that Sasuke was fine and that he was not angry about what she had said earlier.
• Uchiha Rou reunited with Tsunade at home and told her about her academy lessons, while Uchiha Itachi disappeared before Tsunade could see him.
• Uchiha Kō told the Kumogakure envoy that he would attend Fourth Raikage A’s succession ceremony, but demanded the guest list, schedule, and staff information.
• The Kumogakure envoy called A from the monitored restroom and wrote down the requested information as A dictated it.
• Uchiha Kō watched the envoy through surveillance cameras, then told Nara Rokumei and Hatake Sakumo to prepare to keep the monitoring secret.

Uchiha Kō accepted Kumogakure’s invitation to attend the Fourth Raikage’s succession ceremony, then reconsidered stepping down as Hokage to recover the required gift money. In Iwagakure, Deidara demonstrated the destructive power of his Explosion Release and won permission to practice on a plot of land, though Ōnoki still insisted he learn Dust Release.

• The Kumogakure envoy presented the Fourth Raikage’s terms, and Uchiha Kō announced he would travel to Kumogakure in five days.
• Uchiha Kō learned that the customary succession gift was at least five hundred million silver and briefly considered making Minato Hokage to earn it back.
• Nara Rokumei planned for Uchiha Kō’s visit and the village’s governance during his absence, while Hatake Sakumo focused on protecting him.
• Deidara used explosive clay against Kitsuchi inside the Tsuchikage Building, blasting apart part of its second floor as Ōnoki ordered everyone to take cover.
• Ōnoki agreed to give Deidara land for Explosion Release practice, and Deidara ran off with Kurotsuchi.
• Kitsuchi praised Deidara’s power, but Ōnoki continued to believe Dust Release was superior and worried that Deidara would not learn it.

The villages decided who would attend Kumogakure’s succession ceremony, while Sasori completed a puppet made from the former Third Kazekage. The leaders prepared to travel, and Sasori set out to receive the Chikamatsu Ten Puppets while keeping his new puppet secret.

• Ōnoki assigned Kitsuchi and Deidara to accompany him to Kumogakure’s succession ceremony, and Deidara resumed training his Explosion Release with Kurotsuchi nearby.
• Karatachi Yagura invited the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist to accompany him to the ceremony, and they agreed to leave in five days.
• Kazekage Lin agreed to attend with ten jonin and Sasori, while Elder Chiyo offered Sasori her Chikamatsu Ten Puppets.
• Sasori completed a puppet made from the former Third Kazekage’s body and tested its Magnet Release: Iron Sand Drizzle technique.
• Hayashi told Sasori to serve as his guard at the ceremony and arranged for him to take the Chikamatsu Ten Puppets; Sasori hid his Third Kazekage puppet in a scroll and headed to the village.

Uchiha Kō selected Namikaze Minato and his team to accompany him to Kumogakure’s Fourth Raikage succession ceremony, where Minato impressed him and Nara Rokumei with his analysis of Kumogakure’s motives. Kō urged Minato to prepare to succeed him as Hokage, but Minato hesitated, and the chapter ended with Kushina complaining that Kō had kept her husband late.

• Uchiha Kō told Tsunade that Konoha had agreed to give Kumogakure five hundred million taels for the ceremony, and joked that he had proposed passing the Hokage title to Minato to recover the expense.
• Uchiha Kō assigned Minato and his team to accompany him to Kumogakure, with Hatake Sakumo and Minato serving as his primary and secondary guards.
• During a meeting with Nara Rokumei, Minato explained that Kumogakure’s grand ceremony was meant to use Konoha’s presence to deter Iwagakure, and Rokumei approved of his political judgment.
• Uchiha Kō told Minato he could take over as Hokage, but Minato said he did not feel ready, so Kō urged him to be more confident.
• Minato returned home late, covered Naruto with a blanket, and turned off the television, while Kushina complained that Kō had kept him away.

Namikaze Minato returned home and reunited with Uzumaki Kushina and Naruto, while Naruto secretly reflected on his past life as the Seventh Hokage. When Naruto visited Uchiha Kō, the system revealed that Naruto had been reborn with all his memories, leaving both men wary of each other.

• Uzumaki Kushina welcomed Namikaze Minato home, and he gave Naruto souvenirs before the family shared dinner and washed the dishes together.
• Naruto went to play with Hyuga Hinata, whose skills had improved after Naruto explained what he had learned from her Tai Chi Fist.
• Naruto recalled being sealed by Kawaki and realized he had been reborn into a different world where Uchiha Kō was the Fourth Hokage.
• Namikaze Minato brought Naruto to the Hokage Villa, where the system informed Uchiha Kō that Naruto retained the memories of the Seventh Hokage.
• Naruto assessed Uchiha Kō's strength as they met, while Uchiha Kō wondered what attitude Naruto held toward him and the Uchiha.

Naruto privately told Uchiha Kō about his rebirth, and Uchiha Kō persuaded him to stay and help fight the Otsutsuki in exchange for a promise to send him home. Their agreement triggered Uchiha Kō's Golden Rinnegan to unlock fully and advanced him to the Six Paths realm, while Young Lord A and Darui awaited his arrival in Kumogakure.

• Naruto asked Uchiha Kō to speak privately, then was startled when Uchiha Kō identified him as the Seventh Hokage and described his rebirth between parallel worlds.
• Uchiha Kō promised to help Naruto return to his own time and defeat the Otsutsuki there, and Naruto agreed to stay, train, and keep his identity secret.
• Naruto pretended to have fallen so Minato would not suspect their conversation, and Uchiha Kō praised him to Minato before Naruto left with his father.
• The system rewarded Uchiha Kō with a fully unlocked Golden Rinnegan after Naruto gave up his timeline's luck, and Uchiha Kō reached the Six Paths realm.
• Young Lord A asked Darui whether Uchiha Kō would come to Kumogakure, and Darui said he expected him to help keep Iwagakure in check.

Darui received Karatachi Yagura and the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, then welcomed Uchiha Kō and the Konoha delegation to Kumogakure. Ringo Ameyuri became fascinated by the powerful arrivals and secretly followed Konoha’s group, while Uchiha Obito returned to their hotel after the delegation was settled.

• Darui welcomed Karatachi Yagura and the Seven Ninja Swordsmen in Raikage A’s absence, and revealed that he possessed Storm Release.
• Darui’s glare briefly stirred Ringo Ameyuri’s bloodlust, but Karatachi Yagura called her back to her senses.
• Ringo Ameyuri left the inn alone, sampled yak meat, and watched the village gate from a pillar.
• Uchiha Obito loudly announced Uchiha Kō’s arrival with Namikaze Minato and the Konoha delegation, and Darui escorted them into Kumogakure.
• Ringo Ameyuri concealed herself and followed Konoha’s group to learn where they were staying.
• Uchiha Obito returned to the hotel after seeing off the delegation, and Ringo Ameyuri smiled after Darui left.

Ringo Ameyuri challenged Hatake Sakumo to a sword duel and, after losing, gained new insight into swordsmanship. Uchiha Kō then went to meet the Fourth Raikage A, who recognized him in the Raikage's office.

• Ringo Ameyuri arrived at the hotel seeking Hatake Sakumo, and Uchiha Kō identified her as Kirigakure's newest member of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.
• Uchiha Kō approved a duel, and Ringo Ameyuri and Hatake Sakumo fought at the hotel's training grounds.
• Hatake Sakumo countered Ringo Ameyuri's Falling Lightning technique, then advised her to focus on swordsmanship rather than relying on chakra.
• Ringo Ameyuri demonstrated her Fast-Slow Blades technique, but Hatake Sakumo disarmed her with the Hatake Sword Style: Tremor and returned her blades.
• Ringo Ameyuri thanked Uchiha Kō and Hatake Sakumo, declined further sparring, and left; Hatake Sakumo returned to the hotel.
• Uchiha Kō went to the Raikage's office, where the Fourth Raikage A recognized him as he sat on the Raikage's throne.

Uchiha Kō accepted a billion in treasures from Fourth Raikage A in exchange for supporting his succession and spent the night advising him on governing. Meanwhile, Ringo Ameyuri returned from sparring with Hatake Sakumo, and the next day Kazekage Hayashi and Sasori found Chakra Metal at a Kumogakure stall, where the suspiciously low price left Hayashi wary.

• Uchiha Kō hinted that Fourth Raikage A had borrowed his influence, and A presented him with a box of treasures worth one billion in exchange for support in his succession.
• Uchiha Kō advised Fourth Raikage A on village governance through the night, then used the Flying Thunder God to return to the hotel and sleep.
• Ringo Ameyuri told Karatachi Yagura and the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist that she had sparred with Hatake Sakumo and expected to grow stronger, prompting Suikazan Fuguki to train through the night.
• Kazekage Hayashi arrived in Kumogakure with Sasori, who spotted a large piece of Chakra Metal and asked his father to buy it.
• The stall owner asked Hayashi for three hundred million for the ten-pound piece of Chakra Metal, and Hayashi suspected the low price concealed a trick.

Uchiha Kō stopped Kazekage Hayashi from buying a fraudulent block of Chakra Metal and fought the stall owner’s men after exposing the scam. The chapter ended with Darui arriving and realizing the owner had tried to swindle two Kage.

• Uchiha Kō used his Three-Tomoe Sharingan to discover that the Chakra Metal weighed less than two pounds, despite the owner asking three hundred million for it.
• The stall owner threatened Uchiha Kō and summoned his men, but Uchiha Kō defeated them with martial arts while Hayashi and Sasori watched.
• Kumogakure Anbu arrived, recognized Uchiha Kō, and sent up a signal flare that brought Darui to the scene.
• Uchiha Kō forced the owner to confess that he had sold inferior goods as quality Chakra Metal, and Sasori secretly poisoned him with the Chikamatsu Ten Puppets.
• Darui arrived and saw the owner suffering on the ground while Uchiha Kō and Hayashi remained on alert.

Darui welcomed Iwagakure’s delegation after handling the dispute with the dishonest merchant, but Deidara blew up the inn assigned to them. Fourth Raikage A defused the confrontation by apologizing to Ōnoki and escorting the delegation to a luxurious hotel.

• Darui apologized to Uchiha Kō and Hayashi for the merchant’s fraud, and Sasori gave the merchant an antidote before the Kage left.
• Darui went to welcome Ōnoki, Kitsuchi, and Deidara, and Ōnoki mocked him over the Third Raikage’s death.
• Darui led Iwagakure’s delegation to a run-down inn, and Deidara destroyed it with clay explosives.
• Ōnoki and Kitsuchi denied responsibility for the explosion, while Darui angrily accused them of endangering civilians.
• Fourth Raikage A arrived, apologized to Ōnoki, and personally led Iwagakure’s delegation to a luxurious hotel.

The Fourth Raikage arranged for Ōnoki and his delegation to stay across from Uchiha Kō, who challenged Deidara to a ninjutsu contest against Hatake Sakumo. After Kō revealed that lightning neutralized Deidara’s explosive clay, Sakumo countered Deidara’s attacks and knocked him unconscious before his flying dragon could destroy the hotel.

• The Fourth Raikage placed Ōnoki’s party in rooms directly across from Uchiha Kō and secretly planned to record Ōnoki’s reaction.
• Ōnoki apologized to Kō for staying across from him, but Deidara insisted they should not yield, prompting Kō to arrange a contest between Deidara and Hatake Sakumo.
• Kō told Sakumo that Deidara’s explosive clay was powerful but vulnerable to lightning, and Sakumo agreed to fight him.
• Deidara sent clay spiders and birds at Sakumo, who disabled the spiders with lightning and sliced apart the birds with lightning blades.
• Deidara began forming an explosive clay flying dragon, but Sakumo struck it with lightning, made it crumble, and knocked Deidara unconscious.

After Hatake Sakumo defeated Deidara, Uchiha Kō watched Ōnoki decide to push Deidara toward Dust Release while Obito and Rin explored Kumogakure. The couple survived an ambush by Kirigakure and Iwagakure ninja, and Darui hinted that he planned to provoke trouble involving the other Kage as well.

• Hatake Sakumo handed the unconscious Deidara to Kitsuchi, and Ōnoki resolved to make Deidara study Dust Release.
• Uchiha Kō praised Hatake Sakumo, while Obito and Kakashi traded insults before Rin calmed Obito with a kiss.
• Obito and Rin walked through Kumogakure, where Hidden Mist Technique concealed two attackers bearing Kirigakure and Iwagakure forehead protectors.
• Obito used Kamui to stop an earthen spear, and Rin knocked the Iwagakure ninja down before Darui killed both attackers with Black Lightning.
• Darui let Obito and Rin leave, then decided that the other three Kage should also encounter trouble so they would suspect one another.

Uchiha Kō investigated attacks targeting several villages and discovered that Darui and the Fourth Raikage had arranged them to turn the other villages against Iwagakure. The Fourth Raikage named Darui as his successor, while the attacks left Karatachi Yagura planning revenge against Iwagakure.

• Uchiha Obito and Nohara Rin told Uchiha Kō that Kirigakure and Iwagakure ninja had attacked them before Darui intervened, and Uchiha Kō suspected Kumogakure was manipulating events.
• Sasori fought off an attacker with his puppets, but the man disappeared before Sasori could question him, and Kazekage Lin praised his son.
• The Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist killed an attacker using the Hidden Mist Technique, but an Iwagakure ninja's Explosive Tags disrupted them and the target escaped.
• Karatachi Yagura blamed Ōnoki for the attack and ordered the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist to ambush Iwagakure and Kumogakure after the succession ceremony.
• Uchiha Kō overheard the Fourth Raikage and Darui discussing their plot to attack the villages and blame Iwagakure, then heard the Fourth Raikage name Darui as the next Fifth Raikage.

At the Fourth Raikage succession ceremony, Hayashi shared his suspicions about Iwagakure with Uchiha Kō, who knew Kumogakure was behind the attacks. Samui then unexpectedly called on Uchiha Kō to give a speech, and Minato enthusiastically urged his teacher to take the stage.

• The Kage gathered for Kumogakure's succession ceremony, where Ōnoki faced hostility from Hayashi and Karatachi Yagura over the attacks.
• Hayashi told Uchiha Kō that he believed Iwagakure had attacked the villages and revealed that he and Karatachi Yagura had tried to form an alliance against it.
• Uchiha Kō took the central golden seat as Darui welcomed and served the four Kage.
• Samui began hosting the ceremony and invited Uchiha Kō to speak as the strongest shinobi and the Second God of Shinobi.
• Namikaze Minato loudly encouraged Uchiha Kō to give a speech about how a Kage should serve the villagers.

Uchiha Kō took the stage at a gathering of ninja leaders and explained how Konoha valued civilians alongside ninja. He left the audience considering whether their villages could adopt his system, while Minato dreaded the punishment awaiting him for forcing Kō to speak.

• Minato pressured Uchiha Kō to give a speech, and Kō silently decided to punish Minato with grueling physical and academic training after they returned to Konoha.
• Kō stepped onto the stage, sidestepped Samui’s attempt to grab his hand, and joked that his distance came from respecting his wife, Tsunade.
• Samui handed Kō the microphone and invited him to explain how Konoha governed itself and maintained its position among the Five Great Ninja Villages.
• Kō asked what role civilians played and argued that ninja and clans could disappear, but civilians remained essential to food and wartime logistics.
• Kō described Konoha’s contribution-point system, which let civilians earn points through work such as supplying grain and managing logistics, and said reform required strong, determined leadership.

Uchiha Kō laid out ten sweeping reforms for Kumogakure, and the Fourth Raikage ordered them implemented despite the clans’ opposition. After leaving the stage, Uchiha Kō trapped Namikaze Minato in a genjutsu and beat him until he promised to stop talking nonsense.

• The Fourth Raikage blocked the ninja clans from leaving and asked Uchiha Kō to explain his reforms.
• Uchiha Kō listed ten measures, including abolishing clan privileges and making C-rank ninjutsu public.
• The Fourth Raikage ordered the Hokage’s Ten Admonitions implemented, and Darui arranged for the clans to be escorted home and surrounded.
• Uchiha Kō left the stage and grabbed Namikaze Minato, then caught him in a Mangekyō Sharingan genjutsu.
• Uchiha Kō overwhelmed Namikaze Minato in the genjutsu with Banshō Ten'in and beat him until he agreed not to talk nonsense.

Uchiha Kō overwhelmed Namikaze Minato in a genjutsu duel before the Fourth Raikage A formally took office and declared Kumogakure would follow Konoha’s lead. As Ōnoki left the ceremony, a mist-shrouded ambush began, and he discovered Karatachi Yagura and Hayashi among the attackers.

• Uchiha Kō ended the genjutsu, and Namikaze Minato admitted he had been powerless against him.
• Nohara Rin comforted Uchiha Obito after Minato said Uchiha Kō had defeated him without resistance.
• Samui placed the Raikage hat on the Fourth Raikage A, who announced he would lead Kumogakure and follow Konoha’s lead.
• Ōnoki left the ceremony, followed by Hayashi, Karatachi Yagura, and Uchiha Kō with their respective shinobi.
• A barrage of senbon and thick mist ambushed Ōnoki’s party as Munashi Jinpachi attacked Deidara with the Exploding Blade Shibuki.
• Deidara’s Explosive Clay Snake clashed with Munashi Jinpachi’s Explosive Tags and cleared the mist, revealing Karatachi Yagura and Hayashi as attackers.

Lin and Karatachi Yagura trapped Ōnoki’s party and attacked Iwagakure under the pretext of revenge, while Ōnoki realized they intended to weaken his village. Their forces clashed, and Ōnoki revealed a new instant-cast Dust Release as Deidara’s clone attacked him with explosive spiders.

• Ōnoki realized Lin and Karatachi Yagura had surrounded his group with the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, Sasori of the Red Sands, and their troops, and he recognized that the attack on their subordinates had been staged to frame him.
• Lin deployed a forbidden living human puppet, while Karatachi Yagura created Water Mirror clones of everyone present except himself and Lin, then ordered them to kill Iwagakure’s ninja.
• The Water Mirror clones fought Iwagakure’s forces as Ringo Ameyuri and Suikazan Fuguki used the chaos to kill opponents, and Ōnoki tested Kitsuchi’s clone before destroying it with Dust Release.
• Lin and Karatachi Yagura dodged Ōnoki’s instant-cast Dust Release lasers, but Deidara’s clone hurled nearly a hundred explosive spiders at him, forcing him to fly into the air.

Deidara unleashed C3: Eighteen, wiping out the Kirigakure and Sunagakure forces and leaving himself unable to fight. Ōnoki vowed to protect him, and after threatening Kazekage Lin, forced Sunagakure to withdraw as he faced Karatachi Yagura and the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist alone.

• Munashi Jinpachi replenished his chakra with Suikazan Fuguki's help and used the Exploding Blade Shibuki to destroy Deidara's explosive spiders.
• Deidara created and dropped C3: Eighteen, which broke through Sasori's Iron Sand Barrier and obliterated the Kirigakure and Sunagakure jonin and Anbu.
• Kazekage Lin and Karatachi Yagura ordered their forces to kill Deidara, while Ōnoki and Kitsuchi moved to protect him.
• Ōnoki told Kitsuchi to withdraw with Deidara and declared that Deidara should become Tsuchikage if he died defending them.
• Ōnoki blocked the road to Iwagakure with the Earth Mountain Technique and threatened to kill Sasori if Lin continued fighting.
• Lin withdrew from the battle with Sasori, leaving Ōnoki to face Karatachi Yagura and the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.